Mornings at Bow Street: A Selection of the Most Humourous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the Morning HeraldCharles Baldwyn, 1824 - Всего страниц: 279 |
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Стр. 188 - Stop thief, stop thief — a highwayman ! Not one of them was mute, And all and each that pass'd that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space, The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race.
Стр. 234 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, and the word to the action...
Стр. 265 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Стр. 229 - I have carried him many score miles on my knapsack, your honour," repeated the poor fellow, whilst he brushed away the tears from his cheek with his rough unwashed hand, " but it's all over now! — He has done — and — so have I !" The magistrate asked him something of his story. He said he had formerly driven a stage-coach, in the north of Ireland, and had a small share in the proprietorship of the coach. In this time of his prosperity, he married a young woman with a little property, but failed...
Стр. 26 - A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent ; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage...
Стр. 228 - ... to him, and was very clamorous against the witnesses; but as their evidence proceeded, he himself appeared to become gradually convinced. He listened with intense anxiety to the various details; and when they were finished, he fixed his eyes in silence, for a second or two, upon his son, and turning to the magistrate, with his eyes swimming in tears, he exclaimed—" I have carried him many a score miles on my knapsack, your honour!
Стр. 229 - ... or Royal Irish Regiment of Foot, and went on Foreign service, taking with him his wife and four children. Henry (the prisoner) was his second son, and his "darling pride." At the end of nine years he was discharged, in this country, without a pension, or a friend in the world; and coming to London, he, with some trouble got employed as a paviour, by "the gentlemen who manage the streets at Mary-le-bone." " Two years ago, your honour...
Стр. 229 - Two years ago, your honour," he continued, " my poor wife was wearied out with the world, and she deceased from me, and I was left alone with the children ; and every night after I had done work I washed their faces, and put them to bed, and washed their little bits o...
Стр. 231 - Aye, it's fine talking, your worship; I pray to the great God he may never sail any where, unless he sails with me to Ireland !" and then, after a moment's thought, he asked, in the humblest tone imaginable, " Doesn't your honour think a little bit of a petition might help him...
Стр. 112 - xactly, your vorship — she's reckoned so. And I reckon I vouldn'ta married her if I didn't think so, your vorship.' " After some further question and reply, in which he earnestly entreated that an officer might be sent with him to enforce his claim, and get the gentle Desdemona out of the garret by force of arms, the magistrate told him he could do nothing for him ; whereupon he gathered up his features into a frown, put the lid upon his knowledge-box, and stalked out of the office, exclaiming,...